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Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Eagle, after the eagle.
Twenty ships of the Royal Navy have been named Rose or HMS Rose after the rose:
Numerous Royal Navy vessels have been named HMS Dolphin after the dolphin.
Heureux was a 22-gun French privateer brig that the British captured in 1800. She served with the Royal Navy as the 22-gun post ship HMS Heureux. She captured numerous French and Spanish privateers and merchant vessels in the Caribbean Sea before she was lost at sea in 1806. Her fate remains a mystery to this day.
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf:
Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Experiment:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blanche:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mosquito, or the archaic HMS Musquito, after the tropical insect, the Mosquito:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel or HMS Weazle, archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Braak, the Dutch word for "break-through" (braak) or beagle (brak):
Fourteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name Raven, after birds of the genus Corvus, particularly the common raven:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Seagull or HMS Sea Gull, after the gull:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Spencer. A third was renamed before being launched:
Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:
HMS Hippomenes was a former Dutch corvette built in Vlissingen in 1797 for the Batavian Republic. The British captured her in 1803 and she served with the Royal Navy until sold in 1813. With the Royal Navy she participated in two notable single-ship actions in the West Indies.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Amaranthe, a form of the French name for the herb genus Amaranth:
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Égyptienne, or Egypt, which commemorated Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign, was a popular name for French vessels, including naval vessels and privateers. Between 1799 and 1804, warships of the Royal Navy captured one French frigate and five different French privateers all with the name Egyptienne, and at least one privateer with the name Egypte.
Four ships of the Royal Navy have either borne the name HMS Samarang or were intended to bear the name, after the port of Samarang, the site of HMS Psyche's capture of several Dutch vessels there in 1807.
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pandour, after the Pandurs, an 18th-century force of Croatian soldiers, who served the Habsburg Monarchy as skirmishers and who had a reputation for brutality:
References
Citations
- ↑ "No. 15194". The London Gazette . 12 October 1799. p. 1052.
- ↑ "No. 15712". The London Gazette . 19 June 1804. p. 758.
Bibliography
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
